C1Part III Design Right

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Chapter V Miscellaneous and General

Miscellaneous

254 Licensee under licence of right not to claim connection with design right owner.

1

A person who has a licence in respect of a design by virtue of section 237 or 238 (licences of right) shall not, without the consent of the design right owner—

a

apply to goods which he is marketing, or proposes to market, in reliance on that licence a trade description indicating that he is the licensee of the design right owner, or

b

use any such trade description in an advertisement in relation to such goods.

2

A contravention of subsection (1) is actionable by the design right owner.

3

In this section “trade description”, the reference to applying a trade description to goods and “advertisement” have the same meaning as in the M1Trade Descriptions Act 1968.